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Commentary
8¹A clumsy tackle on VIDIC by LUCCHINI results in a booking.
10¹A neatly crafted pass from DONOVAN was hit goalbound by MARCHIONNI only for the 'keeper to claw away.
12¹A cross from FABREGAS left MESSI in lots of space but he snapped at his shot.
15¹A wonderful save prevented VERMAELEN from scoring a good goal.
18¹A high foul gets VERMAELEN a yellow card.
26¹A penalty box meleé resulted in PASQUAL driving a low shot over.
28¹GOAL!! A lovely set-piece enabled MESSI to drive the ball into the net. (1-0 Rangers)
30¹TOURÉ beat LUCCHINI and hit the ball to MESSI who pulled his shot wide.
31¹MESSI shot over.
32¹GOAL!! A corner shot into the goalmouth and RANOCCHIA fumbled the ball into his own net. (2-0 Rangers)
43¹The hapless 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from BRIGHI dropped just wide.
5²DONOVAN clipped the ball through a ruck of players but the Rangers 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
6²COUTINHO dived to his right to stop an accurate shot from Rangers's BENZEMA.
8²MESSI dribbled round LUCCHINI and poked a weak shot well wide.
10²BENZEMA snapped at a simple chance.
10²ZÁRATE given a yellow card by the referee.
11²GOAL!! A poor shot from MESSI seemed to hold no problem for the Fiorentina 'keeper but the ball somehow squeezed over the line. (3-0 Rangers)
16²A useful ball from INIESTA on the left was collected by SCHWEINSTEIGER who scuffed his shot wide.
18²TOURÉ made space on the left and dragged the ball to BENZEMA who fired the ball wide.
19²BADSTUBER nodded the ball wide from just inside the area.
24²MESSI headed over.
43²A mix up in the Fiorentina defence enabled BADSTUBER to hit an effort just beyond the near post.

 
Rangers
 
League position: 1
Home league form: WWWW
Overall league form: WWWWWWWW
Formation: 4-4-2
Line-ups
Iker CASILLAS7½17 Gino COUTINHO
Thomas VERMAELEN7 26 Luciano ZAURI(c)
Holger BADSTUBER8 36½Manuel PASQUAL
Yaya TOURÉ8 47 Matteo BRIGHI
Nemanja VIDIC8 56 Andrea RANOCCHIA
Vincent KOMPANY8 66½Stefano LUCCHINI
Bastian SCHWEINSTEIGER7½77 Jonathan WALASIAK
Francesc FABREGAS8 86½Marco MARCHIONNI
Karim BENZEMA5½96½Landon DONOVAN(p)
(p,f)Lionel MESSI7½105½Tommaso ROCCHI(f)
(c)Andrés INIESTA8 115½Mauro ZÁRATE
David BlairManager
Jérôme BOATENG  12  Gianluca COMOTTO
Manuel NEUER  13  Javier GARCÍA
Lukas PODOLSKI  14  RIVALDO
Rafael VAN DER VAART  157 Gilles BINYA
Wayne ROONEY6 16  Andrew DAVIES
 
Fiorentina
 
League position: 9
Away league form: LWWW
Overall league form: XLXWWLWL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Rangers 3 Fiorentina 0
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 80,391, Stadium: Ibrox, Referee: Martin Hansson 7½)

Messi 28¹, Ranocchia 32¹ (og), Messi 11²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
BenzemaóRooney 30²PasqualóBinya 25²
  
Vermaelen 18¹Lucchini 8¹, Zárate 10²
56
320
61
72
172
244
32
60%40%
Man of the match: Yaya Touré